And I picked it up this morning, along with an "icurve" laptop stand for varied proppings up.
Having played with it for a couple of hours, I have to say that I rather like the Messagepad 110. It's slower, with much poorer handwriting recognition than the NewtonOS 2.1 devices (I had read this often enough, but am still surprised at how much worse it is in actual use), with a smaller screen (physically smaller and with maybe half the resolution?), and no backlighting, either — but you know what? It's still better as a device into which I could put things like schedules, notes, names, etc. on a mobile basis than an ipod touch. It is also a good deal smaller than a 2000/2100, which is also an interesting finding, given common complaints about the size of the latter.
Not that I am going to use it for much, mind you. For most things Newton I have my daily 2100. But it's nice to be able to round out the collection: MessagePads 110, 2000, 2100, and eMate 300 so far.
Having played with it for a couple of hours, I have to say that I rather like the Messagepad 110. It's slower, with much poorer handwriting recognition than the NewtonOS 2.1 devices (I had read this often enough, but am still surprised at how much worse it is in actual use), with a smaller screen (physically smaller and with maybe half the resolution?), and no backlighting, either — but you know what? It's still better as a device into which I could put things like schedules, notes, names, etc. on a mobile basis than an ipod touch. It is also a good deal smaller than a 2000/2100, which is also an interesting finding, given common complaints about the size of the latter.
Not that I am going to use it for much, mind you. For most things Newton I have my daily 2100. But it's nice to be able to round out the collection: MessagePads 110, 2000, 2100, and eMate 300 so far.